Lately I have spent my Saturdays humbly begging on our behalf so that we could offer you some enticements in our HNA raffle and silent auction, happening on the Saturday of our conference, that might be meaningful as well as beautiful.

For example, the Pacific Northwest is a center for art glass, so I really wanted to make an opportunity for you to take some home with you, while, of course, helping to make this conference possible.

Thanks to Glassworks Northwest you now can. We are grateful for the gift of this set of four handmade coasters that will just pick up light every time you use them, and this charming nightlight cover that should make any haiku poet smile.

When I told the people behind Seattle's Big Dipper Wax Works that bees are significant in haiku, they immediately put together something to inspire us. This Beehive Glass candle is complete with two refill candles, beautifully packaged.

And I didn’t have to explain a thing for Mia Yoshihara-Bradshaw to make the connection and very generously offer several of these gorgeous pens and handmade notebooks that will make it possible for lots of us to take a memento of our time together home.

Do you have artworks and objects you’d like to offer as silent auction items to support the conference? Please let me know. Write tracykoretsky at tracykoretsky dot com.